Privacy Roundtable​Keynote Speakers

2018 Keynote Speaker

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Hugh StevensonDeputy Director for International Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)​​

Leading the team that coordinates this U.S. agency’s international consumer protection and privacy work. He heads the U.S. delegation to the OECD’s consumer policy committee, and during 2008-16 served as the U.S. vice chair of the OECD working party on security and privacy in the digital economy.​Hugh represented the FTC in negotiating and then implementing the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. He also represented the U.S. in negotiating the 2015 United Nations consumer protection guidelines and the 2016 OECD guidelines on consumer protection in e-commerce, and helped to negotiate both the APEC privacy framework and the 2013 revisions to the OECD privacy guidelines. Hugh earlier coordinated FTC work on the 2006 U.S. SAFE WEB Act, legislation to enhance the FTC’s international enforcement cooperation. He has worked in various other positions at the FTC, and has litigated for the FTC, for state government, and in private practice.

Hugh, a Harvard Law School graduate, has also taught comparative U.S.-EU data privacy law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown law school.